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On Feb 8, 2008, at 4:58 PM, John Gardner wrote:

> the untold story
> of the Cold War is just how expensive nuclear weapons are.
> For openers, the first four cost in excess of $2 billion, in 1945
> USD. 40 years on, something like 30,000 of the things had been
> produced, for an expenditure that can only be guessed at - Let
> it be said that a careful examination of US economic statistics
> over the period reveal an economic black hole

Really?  Wasn't the duration of "The Cold War" pretty much concurrent  
with the period of the largest economic, technological, and  
scientific growth anywhere, ever?  Probably social and philosophical  
too; there's nothing quite like a contrasting opinion...   It seems  
to me that cold wars are significantly better than warm or hot wars,  
for instance, and the current rate of US expenditure in the middle  
east, JUST on the war itself, makes weapons programs look like mere  
drops in a bucket...

BillW

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